Other Cover Versions
- The Benjamin Gate released a cover of the song on their 2002 album Contact.
- In 2003 Colin Hay released Man @ Work album that consisted of re-recordings of songs from the Men at Work catalog as well as his solo career songs. The album featured an acoustic version of "Overkill". An edited version of that track was previously released in September of 2002 on Music from Scrubs, the first NBC series Scrubs soundtrack album. Colin Hay also appeared in the series itself, performing an acoustic version of the song in Season's 2 premiere episode "My Overkill".
- In 2003 Emmerson Nogueira released an acoustic cover of the song on his Versão Acústica 3 album.
- John Farnham covered the song for his 2005 album I Remember When I Was Young, which consist entirely of cover versions of songs by chart-topping Australian artists.
- In 2007 Dashboard Confessional released a version of the song on the The Wire Tapes Vol. 1 cover album.
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